When the Void Asks, "Can we not talk about politics?"

Great turn out for No Kings protests! The biggest one yet! Listened to some great speeches and saw a ton of inflatable costumes, and LOTS of frogs! Which are apparently our brand now. I do like the “Hope” frog colored like those Obama posters that where 2 colors by that guy… Haha! You know what I’m talking about.

I have been saying the economy is being steered into an iceberg since the election and I might actually be right. Not that I want to be right about that…

All news is bad news.

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I have more art in the works! Of course! I am using my gouache! An artist on Instagram inspired me to cut loose with the colors and only semi-blend them. Behold! My demotivational cats!

I need to do more with the backgrounds but I don’t want to ruin them because I am going to submit via email to a gallery and the deadline is Oct. 31. Also need to figure out the lettering. The issue is medium. Ink? Acrylic? My brush lettering is poor! Colored pencil is mediocre, it’s having trouble on the watercolor paper. Which means acrylic, ink, gouache and watercolor are my best options. Also, umm, I can’t erase all the colored pencil lines I used to write in the sayings. I THOUGHT I was going to pencil it in! I’m probably going to end up using acrylic gouache out of the tube. YES I still don’t have my wet palette refills. I am not ordering them until next month at the earliest. Someday I will get those Posca markers but it won’t be this month.

The second “hurdle” to finishing is I need to either mount them on boards or try to find enough 4”x4” frames WITHOUT saw-tooth hangers at Goodwill/thrift stores and SO MANY frames have saw-tooth hangers. It’s hard to find a frame without them. I can try to wire a pre-existing frame too. Or mount the work to black foam core and use a larger frame but even the ones from Michael’s that I have have, you guessed it, saw-tooth hangers.